EnGendeRights has a long track record in championing the rights to equality and non-discrimination of women and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) persons through its domestic and international legal and policy work, research, publication, training, and impact litigation. EnGendeRights has actively advocated for the adoption of laws, policies, and even international conventions and regional human rights mechanisms upholding the rights of women and rights based on sexual orientation, gender identity, and expression (SOGIE).

EnGendeRights has done groundbreaking work in raising Filipino women’s and SOGIE concerns using United Nations mechanisms through shadow reports, oral interventions, and the request for inquiry on reproductive rights violations in the Philippines submitted to the CEDAW Committee. The request for inquiry was a collaborative effort of the Philippine-based Task Force CEDAW Inquiry (with EnGendeRights as co-convenor), Center for Reproductive Rights, and IWRAW-Asia Pacific where the CEDAW Committee found the Philippines to have committed reproductive rights violations. This inquiry was historic being the second inquiry conducted by the CEDAW Committee throughout the whole world.

EnGendeRights uses a rights-based approach to strongly advocate for access to the full range of contraceptive methods including emergency contraceptives, access to safe and legal abortion, sexuality education, legalization of divorce, decriminalization of abortion and repeal of other discriminatory laws and policies against women and LGBTI persons, and the passage of laws and policies upholding SOGIE rights including anti-discrimination laws and ordinances, gender identity recognition, marriage equality, and SOGIE-inclusive laws.

EnGendeRights has been conducting trainings for judges, public prosecutors, government representatives, lawyers, academe, NGO workers, health care providers, police, social workers, barangay officials and community women and LGBTI leaders on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health and rights, and SOGIE since 2005 up to the present. Atty. Clara Rita A. Padilla, the Executive Director of EnGendeRights, has been conducting trainings and panel discussions in different parts of the Philippines and around the world such as in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Nepal, India, South Africa, Kenya, Denmark, Poland, United States, and Portugal.

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